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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:31:58 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sleepless in Brisbane <snowy@snowy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to Mirror Disks using CCD?
Message-ID:  <20000421163158.H99014@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004211559550.20416-100000@snowy.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004211559550.20416-100000@snowy.org>

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On Friday, 21 April 2000 at 16:00:19 +1000, Sleepless in Brisbane wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am interested in mirroring my hard-drives through ccd only I am not quite
> sure how to go about it.

Why do you want to do that?

> In particular I am wondering if this can be done with a live system
> - changing everything including the root file-system over to ccd
> partitions? (unlike creating fresh raw unused partitions).

No.  You can't run the root off ccd at all.

> Has anyone ever done this?  If so I would love information on what
> you did.  I have two identical HDDs and only one is being used so I
> think I am in a good position to do this.

Use Vinum instead.  In the not-too-distant future it will support the
root file system.  You'll still need to repartition the disks, though.

Greg
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